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Recent General Interest Articles

  1. Communication Studies Around the World

    Explore the world with our Communication Studies Around the World online resource! See the sights that Routledge Communication Studies has to offer you with key books and journal articles on communication studies around the globe. Start your tour with us now.

  2. The Internet in China

    The Internet in China examines the cultural and political ramifications of the Internet for Chinese society. The important question this book asks is not whether the Internet will democratize China, but rather in what ways the Internet is democratizing communication in China.

  3. Recent Highlights from Routledge

    Visit our new selection of recent highlights from four key areas in media and cultural studies:

    - internet and new media
    - media and democracy
    - movie studies
    - photography and visual culture

    From undergraduate and graduate textbooks, to edited collections, to handbooks and scholarly monographs, this range reflects Routledge’s commitment to publishing for all levels of the academic community.

  4. Broadcast Education Association (BEA) 2012

    Routledge will be attending the annual Broadcast Education Association meeting in Las Vegas, April 15-18.

    We are pleased to offer a 20% discount and free shipping to all conference attendees, as well as complimentary exam copies to qualifying professors. Visit us at the Routledge booth to receive your discount or request your complimentary copies.

  5. Shelly Rodgers and Esther Thorson, Authors of the Month, April 2012

    Shelly Rodgers is Associate Professor of Strategic Communication at the Missouri School of Journalism. Her research focuses on advertising, health communication, and new technology. She is Past President of the American Academy of Advertising.

    Esther Thorson is Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research and Director of Research for the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute. She has more than 100 publications on advertising, media economics, and health communication. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Advertising. 

  6. Jeremy Butler, Author of the Month, December 2011

    Jeremy G. Butler is Professor of Telecommunication and Film at the University of Alabama. He has taught television, movie, and new media courses since 1980 and is active in online educational resources for television and movie studies.

  7. Review: The Situated Organization

    "Taylor and Van Every contribute to the general understanding of the sometimes overly abstract writing of the Montreal School. ... The Situated Organization is a good first read for students and teachers of organizational communication ... it is Taylor and Van Every’s very practice of empirical research that sheds yet another light on organization, organizations, and – organization studies.'"
    --Organization Studies 2011 (Reviewed by Steffen Blaschke, University of Hamburg, Germany)
     

  8. Review: Qualitative Research in Technical Communication

    "Conklin and Hayhoe have assembled an impressive collection of work ... The editors neatly weave the chapters into a coherent whole. ... For students and academics, this book would be a valuable (and at a list price of $44.95 paperback, an affordable) addition to one’s professional library."
    --IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION, VOL. 54, NO. 3, SEPTEMBER 2011
     

  9. Society for Technical Communication: The Top 100 Technical Communication Books of 1991–2010

    Society for Technical Communication's Intercom magazine names Research Primer for Technical Communication one of the top 100 books in the field in the past 20 years. Contact your Routledge Rep for more information. 

  10. Book review: Doing Ethics in Media

    "I have to admit that I wish I had written this textbook. It does what I have been arguing for years that textbooks in the field should do ... Roberts and Black have put together excellent content and hands-on analysis techniques that one finds scattered throughout the best existing texts in the field. ... Doing Ethics includes a multitude of questions that challenge students and their instructors to think beyond simplistic notions."
    --Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Volume 26, Number 3, 2011 

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